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Movements such as the No Military Trials for Civilians (NMTC) are also focusing on civilian abduction (file photo: AFP)
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Over a thousand still ‘missing’ since 2011 uprising

Some individuals are abducted and released within hours while others remain abducted…

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
Emirati police during a security operation (photo: AFP/Marwan Naamani )
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UAE goes after dissidents and Islamist opposition group

Scores of activists and members of Al-Islah rounded up by Emirati police

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
A handout picture released by Bahrain’s main opposition Al-Wefaq group shows protesters engulfed in tear gas fired by police during a demonstration in a Shia village close to Manama (file photo: AFP/Ho/Al-Wefaq Media Centre)
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Bahrain interior minister orders investigation into violations

Sheikh Rashed Ibn Abdullah Al-Khalifa has ordered an investigation into violations of…

Rana Muhammad Taha Rana Muhammad Taha
A year and four months in an isolated cell left Turkish journalist Müyesser Yıldız with little to say. “I have trouble speaking, I have been all alone in my cell you see,” said Yıldız, who was recently released by authorities.
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Turkey’s openness myth challenged by detentions of journalists

Turkey, long considered the Arab ideal, has issues of its own

Ahmed Khalifa Ahmed Khalifa